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Chapter 1

• IEP

Chapter 2: Planning and Organizing Instruction

Chapter 3: Assessing Students for Instruction

Chapter 4: Teaching Students and Managing Instruction

Chapter 5: Promoting Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Development

Chapter 6:

Chapter 7:










Dr. Hiam Ginott (Milwaukee Public Schools, 1990, p. 3 reminds teachers of the need to recreate caring environments:

I have come to the frightening conclusion that,

I am the decisive element in the classroom.

It is my personal approach that creates the climate.

It is my daily mood that makes the weather.

As a teacher I possess tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous.

I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration.

I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal.

In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated,

And a child humanized or de-humanized.

from - Teaching Students with Learning Problems, 8th Edition, Cecil D. Mercer; Ann R. Mercer; Paige C. Pullen (2011).